Half-title: A. S. W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography

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Lecture I: medicine. Hippocrates of Cos ; Celsus ; Soranos of Ephesos ; Galen of Pergamon ; The early Byzantine physicians ; Avicenna ; Medical collections ; A few words of conclusion -- Lecture II: natural history. The four masters ; Aristotle of Stageiros ; Theophrastos of Eresos ; Dioscorides of Anazarbos ; Pliny the Elder ; The development of naturalism in art and science ; Printed images ; The new herbals ; The encyclopedists ; The anatomists ; Conclusions -- Lecture III: mathematics and astronomy. Plato and Aristotle ; Euclid of Alexandria ; Archimedes of Syracuse ; Apollonios of Perga ; Ptolemy of Alexandria ; The middle books ; Arithmetic ; Algebra ; Trigonometry ; Astronomy ; Mathematical encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Appendix: the survival of ancient and medieval men of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

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